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Amazon Wages War on Apple: New HD Kindles Take Aim at iPad
At a Thursday event held in a Santa Monica airplane hangar, Amazon.com Inc. unveiled its new line of Kindle Fire HD tablets. Although they will...
YouTube Analytics: Measuring the Value of Your Video
For the past several years, rich content has been on the rise, and Google subsidiary, YouTube, has remained the undisputed leader of online video sharing....
Transparency is Key to Building SEO Client Trust
Let’s face it, the SEO industry, like any other, has its fair share of less-than-scrupulous players looking to take advantage of unsuspecting site owners. I’m...
Google Awarded Patent For Multi-User Face Unlock
On Wednesday, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office granted Google a patent that allows one or more users to log in to a computing device...
Weekly Webinars and Upcoming Events 9/5/2012
I’m excited to announce that CopyBlogger and Search Engine Journal will be partnering to bring you a webinar about the updates to Scribe, their content...
Zuckerberg to Hold Facebook Stock for a Year
On Tuesday afternoon, Facebook’s anemic stock saw a small boost after a Facebook regulatory filing announced that CEO Mark Zuckerberg will not sell his shares...
Search Marketing Insight: How To Expand Into Canada
If you’re looking to expand your search marketing program beyond the United States, put Canada on your map. With a steady rise in online advertising...
50 Best Internet Marketing Blog Posts of 2012 (So Far)
As we approach the Labor Day holiday, it’s a good time to look back and review all of the great content that’s been published so...
Google Books Judge Refuses to Delay Case
Shortly after Google began digitally scanning millions of books in 2004, the Authors Guild and various other copyright holders filed a class-action lawsuit against the...
Most Popular SEJ Articles for July 2012
1). How to Deal with Creativity Block by David Wallace | @DavidWallace David provided an infographic that can help you with that blank page staring back...
Analysts Slash Facebook’s Projected Earnings by $1 Billion
Ever since Facebook’s long-awaited IPO, the social media giant has disappointed investors and faced a seemingly never-ending wave of negative PR. Now, just as things...
You’re Invited: Soft Launch of Distilled’s Video Marketing Guide
There are over 169.3 million people who watch Internet videos regularly, and YouTube is now the second largest online search engine. People love video, and...
March of the Penguins, Which Led to a Friendly Panda and Finally a Recovery
April of 2012 was a rough month for SEO. We had three updates all within nine days: Panda on the 19th, Penguin 1.0 on the...
Google Plus Launches New Business Features
On Wednesday, Google unveiled a brand new set of tools for business customers that combines popular features from Google+ with the functionality of Google Apps....
Why Google Will Bet the Farm on Fiber … to Sell More Ads
So much has been made about Google’s entry into the Internet Service Provider (ISP) market since the announcement of Google Fiber in July. The pilot...
Weekly Webinars and Upcoming Events 8/29/2012
Don’t look, but it’s almost September, so 2012 is buzzing by! Hopefully, you’ll have some time to slow down and watch some webinars. Even better,...
Facebook Publishing Users’ Private Location Data
Many Facebook users have noticed the recent change where some posts are now displaying the location of the user who submitted the post. This map...
Why We Had a Company-wide Meetup (and How to Execute One Yourself)
A successful start-up depends fully on a foundation of employees who can effectively communicate, hustle, and essentially get sh*t done. Today, you can find these...
3 Ways to Find Questions to Answer in Your Content
One of the best ways to approach evergreen content that draws in search traffic for years to come is to answer a question. At WordStream,...
CNN and Facebook Launch New Election Insights Website
In early July, CNN and Facebook announced a new election year partnership that would provide voters and political junkies with metrics based on real-time conversations...
Negative SEO: Does It Really Work?
Similar like the normal world, both good and evil exist in SEO society, as well. “Good people do not need laws to tell them to...
15 Tips on Managing an Internet Marketing Team
In some ways, it’s odd to even look at the statement, “managing an Internet marketing team,” as few companies actually had dedicated digital marketing departments...
Jury Finds Samsung Guilty of Patent Infringement
On late Friday afternoon, a juryin a San Jose federal courtroom handed Apple a major legal victory in a landmark patent trial. The jurors, who...
Google Job Listing Reveals Plan to Protect Users’ Privacy
Recently, a Google job posting was discovered that reveals the world’s leading search engine is planning on creating a ‘Red Team’ to protect users’ privacy....
Facebook Messages Testing Recent Design Overhaul
Yesterday, Facebook announced a new design for Facebook Messages that features a new dual-pane layout and several other new features. The new design, which strongly...
Weekly Webinars and Upcoming Events 8/22/2012
So what do you look for in a webinar? An interesting topic or times and dates? Do you view many or just attend a few?...
Early Facebook Investor Sheds Majority of Company Stock
According to a regulatory filing on Monday, former PayPal CEO and early Facebook investor and board member Peter Thiel cashed out just under $400 million...
The Importance of International Mobile Search
The Internet has, of course, permanently changed the way many businesses operate. The Web has opened up a host of opportunities, but the rapidly changing...
Judge Rejects Google’s Paid Journalist Disclosure
In early August, Judge William Alsup, who is presiding over the courtroom battle between Google and Oracle, ordered both companies to provide legal disclosures of...
A Glimpse into the Black Hole of the “Not Provided” Keyword Segment
I think we have all started living in fear when Google Analytics introduced the “Not Provided” keyword segment. This still could be the end of...